Talk:Two Thousand Maniacs!

Disney
I've removed this paragraph from user:68.204.119.78:
 * None of the film was made anywhere near Disney, it was all made rite in Saint Cloud. At that time the disney area would hav been just swampy nothingness. If some scenes were not shot in Saint Cloud then they were shot in near by Kissimmee, which is the in between the Disney area and Saint Cloud.

I also removed the Disney reference:
 * "Ironically, some of the filming locations are now part of family theme park Disney World."

I checked: Curry, Christopher. A Taste Of Blood: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis. London: Creation Books, 1999. ISBN 1-8715-9291-7. It confirms the St. Cloud filming, and the town's participation, but says nothing about filming on current Disney land. Dekkappai (talk) 19:49, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Offensive Ethnic Slur
The article used the ethnic slur "redneck" as if it were a legitimate descriptive term for white Southerners (or perhaps only for "bad" white Southerners). It did link the term to the article "Redneck (Stereotype)", but acknowledging the stereotype is not the same as acknowledging the slur. If the article dealt to the slightest degree with the use of anti-Southern stereotypes in film, the use of the term, in quotation marks and in context, might be legitimate. As it was, it was simply a slur. Had the film featured a shtetl full of vengeful Jews who slaughtered a party of unsuspecting Germans, it would have been inappropriate to refer to the Jews by an analogous epithet, even if that epithet were connected to a stereotype employed in the film.

I have deleted the term, replacing it in one instance with "white Southerners". (In the other instance, it was used as an adjective, modifying "citizens", so I simply deleted it.)

Jdcrutch (talk) 18:19, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Your post is noted, and corrections have been made. The redneck caricature is integral to the film, as it would almost be more egregious to use the term "Southerners," because this caricature is informed by other images of poor white people in the South in popular culture and continued to influence various "redneck" horror movies. Sad, but true. Also, you should have noted the Critical Analysis section of the article where two academic analyses of the film are quoted, specifically the sections about caricature and stereotypes (they are also set in their historical and social contexts). Adding in the quotation marks would have been a proper edit, deleting them altogether obfuscates the information about the film.

Muddbrixx (talk) 13:13, 28 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the civil corrections, which I accept. Jdcrutch (talk) 21:29, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Plot
The plot is too short and should be expanded.--Paleface Jack (talk) 22:17, 13 February 2014 (UTC)